Garment-supporter.



W. H. DAVID.

GARMENT SUPPOETER.

APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 22, 1912.

1,066,715. Patented July 8, 1913.

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. of construction which will be more fully UNITE STATES GARMENT-SUPPORTER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 8, 1913.

Application filed November 22, 1912. Serial No. 732,860.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM l-l. DAVID, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tottenville, in the county of Richmond, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Supporters; and I do declare the following to be a full, true, and exact description of the said invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appcrtains to make use of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in garment supports and particularly to a device which is simple, eifective and inexpensive and one that can be readily applied to trousers for the purpose of supporting undergarments so that there will be no danger of their becoming loose, and yet one which may be opened readily when it is desired to do so.

With this and other objects in view my invention consists of certain novel features described and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the form of my invention which I have selected for purposes of illustration, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.

The corresponding parts are referred to both in the drawings and the following description by similar reference characters.

In the drawings 10--11 represent a pair of parallel wires, spaced apart to form an opening between them and bent, as shown, so as to provide the portions 20-21 which are in contact or substantially in contact with each other. The upper portions of the members 2021 are bent to form the eyes 12-13. The lower portion of the members 1011 are wound into coiled springs 14-15, the wire from these springs being extended, as shown particularly in Fig. 2, in two parallel portions 1617 adjacent each other to form a tongue, this tongue extending substantially parallel with the body portion of the supporter made up of the wires 10--11. At the upper ends of the portions 16 17, the tongue is bent inwardly at substantially right angles with the members 16-17 to form a top portion 18 which is carried into the space formed between the members 1011. At the inner end of the portion 18, is bent outwardly a guide member 19, as shown particularly in Fig. 2, this guide member extending at an angle to that part of the body member composed of the wires 20---21 and above these wires.

lVhcn a loop or band is slipped in between the guide member 15) and the wires 20-21, it will be seen that" a slight pull downward will tend to swing the member 19 outward, thus removing the end of the wire 18 from the body portion 10--1 1, and permitting the loop to pass brtwccn the wires l01'1. and l6-17. The loop will then be supported on top of the coil s 'n-ing 1:"). It will also be obvious by an inspection of liig. 2 par ticularly, that this loop cannot be removed from the space bet ween the wires 'l.()-'11 and lo -17 unless the wires ill-17 are moved away from the wires 110--l1, which will be done only when the guide member 19 is moved by the lingers of the operator, or if no guide member 19 provided, when the wires io -1T are turned around the spring '15 by the fingers of the operator. lly reason of the member 18 being substantially at right angles to the members 1617, any upward pressure of the loop against the member 18 has no tendency to rotate the wires jlti-17 away from the body member as would be the use if this member 18 formed an acute angle with the wires 16-47. On the other hand, it will be seen that when the member 19 is moved outward by the fingers of the operator, the member 18 is no longer at right angles to the body portion 10--11, so that the loop when moved upward, engages with a surface at such an angle to the direction of pull as to assist in swinging the members 1(S17 around the coil spring 15. l l cmc, by having the tongue member substantially parallel to the body portion and having the hook or top portion 18 substantially at right angles to the tongue, and therefore to the body portion, an arrangement is produced which effectually prevents any pressure of the loop engaged in the space between the tongue and the body member from opening the tongue member and yet provides an easy and effective arrmigcment for the ready release of the loop when desired by the operator. By bringing the wires 20-421 together adjacent to the guide member 19, a much more ell'eetivc guideway is provided than if the members 20-21 were merely extensions of the wires 1011. Any loop inserted behind the guide portion 1.) reacts directly against the wires 2021 and serves to move the guide portion 19, irrespective of whether such loop is composed of a stiff metallic material or of a soft tape.

While many advantages of my arrangement may be obtained without the use of the coiled springs 14-15, I prefer to use such springs, for I have found by experience that pressure on the coil 1t15 has no tendency to open the tongue 16-17. Without such coil springs, downward pressure of the loop engaged in the space between the body portion and the tongue would tend to bend the wire or sheet metal of which the supporter is composed, to throw the tongue member 17 outward to open the supporter. By providing the coil springs 14;-15 I produce an arrangement which forms a very efficient spring arrangement for returning the tongue 1617 into place when it is released by the fingers of the operator, and one in which the pressure on the loop engaged by the supporter has practically no efiect in tending to open the tongue. This last effect is due to the fact that, while such pressure may have some tendency to unroll the coils 1 l15 from the wires 10-11, it also has a tendency to collapse the coils 1415, and thus bring the wires 16-17 closer to the wires 10-11.

While I have shown my supporter made of round wires, it should be understood that I may make it of wires of any preferred form, and indeed, many features of my ar- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the rangement may be obtained in structures stamped out of sheet metal.

W hile I have denominated my device as a garment supporter, for which it is especially adapted, it should be understood that my arrangement may be used for many other purposes.

Having now described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

In a device of the class described, the combination of a body member composed of a pair of parallel wires extending substantially in contact for a portion of their length and spaced apart for the remainder of their length, said wires forming a coil at one end of said body member and emerging from said coil in a direction substantially parallel with said body member and spaced apart therefrom to form a tongue, said tongue having a top portion extending substantially at right angles to said tongue and into the space between said parallel wires and having a guide portion extending from the end of said top portion outwardly and away from said body member and over those portions of said parallel wires which are in substantial contact.

Dated, November 14th, 1912.

WILLIAM H. DAVID.

Witnesses:

RITA F. WYRILL, W'ILLIAM WVYRILL.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

